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“Whenever I feel unworthy, I deny myself food. It is a way of literally making myself small and weak, and yet, at the same time, I felt that hunger gave me mental clarity.”
― Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

“A poet, he argued, is different from somebody who simply writes poetry. A poet is loyal to his own experience and does not write about things outside his own understanding, whereas somebody who writes poetry simply puts together sentences, whose words he arranges in separate lines. Without fresh colors, without luster, without images, he asked, where is a poem’s artistic life?”
― Weiwei Ai, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

“Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.”
― Weiwei Ai, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

“At least I had him, and he loved me so much it sometimes seemed to cause him pain.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir